Re: [TEST(/review)] major/minor/devname fix

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 03/10/05

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    To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:00:33 +0100

    In message <20050310065126.GA28001@nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes:
    >On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:32:39AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
    >> There is no risk of collision, look at what devfs_random() does.
    >
    >What happens with whole devfs_random() logic, in case first devfs_seed
    >obtained after masking with 0xf0f becomes 0 again (as it was before)? And
    >second? And third? It may happens especially in some "no good entropy yet"
    >scenario.

    Then somebody beats our PRNG maintainers over the head until they get
    their act together. 

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